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as in streamlining
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as in generalization
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Recent Examples of simplification
While recyclers also must clearly communicate their material specifications—such as fiber ratios, contamination thresholds and formatting needs—brands can, through design choices like standardized fiber blends and trim simplification, improve end-of-life recyclability.
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Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 12 Jan. 2026
The simplification of this rallying cry points to the exhibition’s sagacious curatorial focus.
—Michaëla De Lacaze Mohrmann, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2026
The company is now in the midst of a radical simplification to consolidate those 80 platforms down to just three.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 16 Dec. 2025
Similarly, American Hospital Association members haven’t seen much movement this year, said Terrence Cunningham, senior director of administrative simplification policy.
—Tami Luhby, CNN Money, 4 Dec. 2025
This is a gross simplification of a series that is wildly imaginative, nuanced, patient, granularly detailed, surprising, smart and fun.
—Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 3 Dec. 2025
National identity is doubtless an exercise in simplification—overlooking contradictions, insisting on a single form—but the ease and imagination with which the first Blue Voyagers created their own mythology retains a contagious creative force.
—Ayşegül Savaş, New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2025
It was driven by a 14 percent like-for-like decline in stores, closing six, as the strategy of structure simplification continued.
—Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 19 Nov. 2025
The small, cube-like dimensions of the Bliss 8 naturally require an interior simplification, which starts with designating it a two-person camping space with lift-away 81 x 59-in (206 x 151-in) queen-size bed.
—New Atlas, 14 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for simplification
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The Ramp Visa® Corporate Card is an interesting option for incorporated businesses looking to increase business funding with a card while streamlining finances.—
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Another finding is that regulatory streamlining is expected to boost business.—
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Mentee’s progress in vision-language-action models, large-scale simulation, and advanced Sim2Real transfer directly complements Mobileye’s autonomy platform, improving generalization, accelerating development, and enabling faster adaptation to new environments.—
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Some dementia cases may have been missed, and the results are from a Swedish population, which may limit generalization.—
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Many types of utopias have been articulated in late-modern culture, each one a distillation of some community’s desire for relief from the strictures and curtailments of life’s possibilities.—
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Its manifesto centered on curtailment of the power of the railroads, federal loans to aid farmers in debt, and currency reform that entailed reintroducing Hamilton’s old silver dollar alongside the gold dollar to ease monetary conditions, which would give debtors a chance to clear their loans.—
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Managers have tried for years to get control of the runaway meeting train by tightening agendas and shortening sessions.—
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This means brushing a neutral oil or vegetable shortening on the cast iron and baking it upside down in a 375-degree oven.—
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“Simplification.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/simplification. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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